December 2012 Archives
Where We Are:
Southern California has its own way of celebrating the New Year, by taking aim at easterners who might yearn to live -- warm and snowless -- in our presumed paradise.
Commentary:
For 21 years, the 134-foot-tall thermometer in the center of Baker, California has provided a landmark for people traveling on Interstate 15. That will likely remain the case for some time, though whether the thermometer remains lit depends in part on who volunteers to pay the electric bill.
Where We Are:
Social and political forces are shaping neighborhoods to become more dependent on walking and cycling. Greater risk is an unintended consequence.
Commentary:
For African Americans, the more things change, the more they stay the same
LA as Subject:
Although best known today for whisking tourists up San Francisco's hilly streets, cable cars were once a widely used public transit solution in cities across the U.S., including L.A.
West Is Eden:
Did it or didn't it? The end of the world, or a new beginning?
Where We Are:
I'm the boy in front. My brother, two years older, is behind.
Where We Are:
The stories we have our pictures tell seem to say more about us than anything about the past.
Commentary:
2012 was a year of change for the California Desert, as human society elsewhere increasingly closed its grip on the desert as a place to sacrifice for our comfort. But in a couple of ways, the desert struck back.
Commentary:
Even these days, for many in the LGBT community coming out can be a difficult and sometimes stressful process.
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I Am Los Angeles: Dreamer
To many Veterans, a little trailer barber shop in West L.A. is something akin to an island oasis.
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